Location-sharing service Foursquare is splitting its app in two as the novelty of checking in at a store or restaurant has worn off. Swarm, the new app, will still let users broadcast “I’m here!” and show them which of their...

The Cable Show, the industry’s annual gathering that’s happening this week under the blazing Los Angeles sun, had no shortage of news to pick apart given Comcast’s $45 billion deal to buy Time Warner Cable announced in February as well as...

While Comcast and Time Warner Cable cast a large shadow across the pay-TV industry, they may be just the behemoth that could give Verizon and AT&T a fight in mobile. Big Cable has all the tools in place to create...

While consumers may be reading daily newspapers less, one morning habit hasn’t changed: the commute. Now, the Tribune Co.’s innovation and technology unit wants drivers and bus riders to listen to audio versions of its stories. Newsbeat, the first major consumer...

Andreessen Horowitz, one of Silicon Valley’s most visible venture-capital firms, is taking a stance on small-cap market reform. Scott Kupor, a managing partner at the Menlo Park, California-based firm, is publicly declaring his support for the U.S. Securities and Exchange...

Lisa Belkin, a senior columnist for the Huffington Post writing about motherhood and work, will be leaving the website to work for Yahoo. She joins other brand name journalists Yahoo recently hired such as former New York Times tech...

It may seem strange that in our smartphone-obsessed world, Caterina Fake’s startup Findery is just now launching a mobile application, after building the business for the desktop first. With mobile usage set to eclipse desktop usage in the U.S., some...

Facebook and Twitter, as hyped as they were ahead of their public-market debuts, had in common one not-so-impressive number: zero female board members. While each company addressed the matter by adding women directors after their initial public offerings, another startup...

A well-known fact about Silicon Valley is that the vast majority of technology startups fail. Rich Barton never got the memo. Barton, who started Expedia in 1994 and co-founded Zillow in 2005, helping both reach multibillion dollar stock-market valuations, is...

(Corrects headline and sixth paragraph to show that Gyft could track tweets, though it isn’t yet doing so.) CJ MacDonald is preparing for a crazy December. Consumers will likely be flocking to his site, Gyft.com, to buy gift cards from...